Mike Jenkins
Mike Jenkins is now a full-time writer and teacher of Creative Writing, after spending over 30 years teaching in Secondary education. He is former editor of 'Poetry Wales' and is co-editor and founder of 'Red Poets' magazine, which has been going for 15 years. He has won an Eric Gregory Award, Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize, John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and, in 1998, the Wales Book of the Year for 'Wanting to belong'( Seren ), a book of interlinked stories. His novella for...See more
Mike Jenkins is now a full-time writer and teacher of Creative Writing, after spending over 30 years teaching in Secondary education. He is former editor of 'Poetry Wales' and is co-editor and founder of 'Red Poets' magazine, which has been going for 15 years. He has won an Eric Gregory Award, Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize, John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and, in 1998, the Wales Book of the Year for 'Wanting to belong'( Seren ), a book of interlinked stories. His novella for teenagers 'The Climbing Tree' will be published by Pont in Feb. 2010. He has appeared at the Hay Festival and Aldeburgh Festivals, has had a BBC programme dedicated to his work, and has read many of his poems on TV and Radio. A number of his stories have been adapted for radio and a book of stories 'Wanting to Belong' was made into a drama on BBC Wales and also dramatised for a Channel 4 education programme. He has his own website and 'blogs' on a regular basis. (... ) . He also writes regularly for the Cardiff City FC fanzine 'Watch the Bluebirds Fly' and the political magazine 'Celyn' (left-leaning) where he reviews music from Wales. He also organizes a monthly poetry event in Merthry, which includes a guest reader and an 'open mic' element. See less